Tinea gladiatorum due to Trichophyton tonsurans in a school wrestling team in Mexico: A case series
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OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of tinea gladiatorum among young wrestlers and dermatophyte contamination of wrestling mats from Sari city, the capital of Mazandaran, a northern province of Iran. DESIGN 324 wrestlers (aged 9-20 years) from 7 active clubs in Sari city were examined, and skin scrapings were obtained from 135 wrestlers suspected of having tinea gladiatorum. The scraped skin sa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Medical Mycology
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2423-3420,2423-3439
DOI: 10.18502/cmm.6.4.5439